And special thanks @stevevance.net for suggesting this simple improvement! We're always looking to make the benchmarking data easier to digest

In the last year it was over 500, and there were thousands of incidents of non compliance over the years of the ordinance! We'll work on adding it to our fine breakdown page:

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We were shocked too! It's an easy win for climate and city revenue in one stroke

Find universities and agencies by going to our website's large owner page! Did you find anything surprising? 👀

electrifychicago.net/large-owners

And you can find the full list of all electric buildings right here!

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Click to reveal the answer below. Did you get it right?!

A lot of volunteers put a lot of effort into crunching this data, so if you found it interesting, or useful, give us a follow, and share this with a friend! If you have feedback on graphs and analysis that would be helpful to you, let us know that too!

But in more positive news, our brand new citywide stats page (electrifychicago.net/citywide-stats) shows that the overall set of benchmarked buildings has been improving - with slow but noticeable downward trends in emissions, emissions intensity, and electricity use, and fluctuating gas use.

We also still have several building owners who have now been in violation for several years, like @illinoistech.bsky.social, who haven't reported data for the past two years.

Unfortunately, there's also several buildings that stopped reporting - since fines haven't been levied for non-compliance, we expect this trend to continue. One example? The cook county department of corrections!

electrifychicago.net/building/coo...

There's also some older buildings that started reporting for the first time, like the CHI1 Data Center. It's all electric, but has the second highest GHG intensity in the city!

electrifychicago.net/building/ch-...

To start, you can jump into all of this data at our latest updates page (electrifychicago.net/latest-updates). There we can find new buildings, like the all-electric 320 N Canal, aka BMO Tower! Finished in 2021, we can now get a look into its energy use.

electrifychicago.net/building/320...

We love our lean green corn cobs!

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